Nov 2 - Up early and load up on the free breakfast chow. Odette gets a last half hour playtime with the tiny black resident kitten, and we are off to the dolmuş stop for the 30 minute ride to Denizli.
These bus terminals are so easy the second time around. Our bus line this time is well outfitted with plugs and wifi, and a snack cart that passes down the aisle. The scenery is wooded mountains just about the entire four hour ride.
The Antalya otogar is well to the north of the town center, in, once again, a huge complex. Unlike Izmir, here the public transport options into town are easy to figure out. There is a bus stop right next to the door, and a metro line can be seen on the main street. We catch bus #94 to the downtown center, a few minutes walk from our hotel.
The part of Antalya we are in is the ‘old town’, which doesn’t look much different, but is dotted with older, historically significant structures.
Antalya is the largest Turkish city that borders the Mediterranean, and the fifth largest overall in Türkiye. Its early (known) history is similar to Pamukkale, being settled by the Attalid Dynasty of Pergamon, then taken over by the Romans. But besides Hadrian’s Gate, most of the older buildings left relate to the Seljuk Dynasty.
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